Lars Soby Christensen is probably the most famous modern Scandinavian writer in the world. Fame first came to him back in the seventies, when he published his poetry collection “The History of Glu”, and in 1984, his first novel “The Beatles” went around the world, collecting several prestigious international literary awards. However, his best work was still “Half-Brother”: it was for this that Christensen received the “Nordic Council Prize” - in Europe it is often called the “Scandinavian Nobel”, it is he who holds the absolute record for all Scandinavian literature - translation into more than thirty languages Half a century fits into the pages of “Half Brother” - from the end of World War II to the turn of the millennium. The plot centers on two half-brothers bound by a strange, bitter and painful love-hate relationship. The brothers are surrounded by women, strong, passionate and therefore lonely: their mother, who became a victim of violence on the day the war ended, their grandmother and great-grandmother, a silent film actress who did not play a single role. This is not just a family saga with a gripping plot, it is also a novel about lies and self-deception, subjugating the lives of the heroes and destroying it from the inside.